Woman so sick she vomits 15 times an hour

Sherrie Duggan began to feel sick constantly in August 2014 (Picture: BPM)

A young woman said she contemplated suicide after developing a disorder that leads her to vomit up to 15 times an hour.

Sherrie Duggan, from Hall Green, Birmingham, started to feel sick constantly one evening in August 2014, and initially dismissed it as a stomach bug.

After two weeks of constant pain and vomiting, the 35-year-old began to realise something was seriously wrong. Her next spell of severe sickness sent her into a diabetic coma and she woke up in the Intensive Care Unit of Heartlands Hospital two days later.

‘I thought I just had a bad tummy bug, so I didn’t go to the doctor,’ Ms Duggan said.

Ms Duggan is one of a handful of people with Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome (Picture: BPM)

‘I’m an insulin-dependent diabetic, so my main concern was getting enough sugar.’

Even after she was discharged, Ms Duggan said she was no closer to finding out the cause of her sickness. She continued to experience attacks of constant vomiting, some of which lasted as long as five days.

The team leader for Mitchell & Butlers pubs was ‘suicidal’ when she finally got a diagnosis of Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome, and with a cocktail of drugs she is able to get her attacks under control.

Ms Duggan says she is still in ‘chronic pain’ and has to eat a strict diet of white meat and boiled vegetables.

Sherrie is feeling more hopeful for the new year after joining a national support group, and has finally found others who share the same symptoms.